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In that it's not too much per year for any contending team to take on... Yes.

There is just zero chance he plays out the full contract in Miami. And I could be wrong but doesn't this make him the highest-paid Marlin?

I know Minnesota's chilly in April and September, but, really, is the extra cash worth playing for the Marlins (even if you have a home in FL)? If Minnesota was offering 3/$18 aren't they closer to contending than the Marlins?

Well, at least we now know the QO would have been a wild, crazy overpay for Salty.

I mean, the NYS short porch will mask things, but normalized? It wouldn't at all shock me if Salty ended up posting better number than McCann over the course of this deal (and obvi - McCann then has a lot more downside years left on his deal).

over/under on when he gets traded? i'd think winter of 2014 would be a good baseline, since there's probably an equal chance that he gets traded late in the bb season of 2014 or during the season of 2015.

i'd like to think that the only reason he signed with them was he had no other offers remotely close.

As a Red Sox fan, I found Salty easy to root for, but I am not sad to see him leave. I really think the Salty of 2013 is the best you'll ever get, and I think he lacks the command of the strike zone needed to hit anything like .270/.330 in the future.

And for those Sox fans who were upset that the team did not make the $14.1 million qualifying offer to Salty...this contract should act as proof that he would have grabbed it in a second. He'll make less in two years of this contract than he would have in the qualifying deal.